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Isotropy vs Allotropy - What's the difference?

isotropy | allotropy |

As nouns the difference between isotropy and allotropy

is that isotropy is the property of being identical, or having the same physical properties, in all directions while allotropy is a property, exhibited by some elements of existing in multiple forms with different atomic structures.

isotropy

Noun

(-)
  • (geometry, physics) The property of being identical, or having the same physical properties, in all directions.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, page 478,
  • down this road, as they watched, came a wagon, then a couple of riders, then a coach and another wagon, in daylight which slowly lost its stark isotropy and was flowed into by clouds and chimney smoke and even episodes of weather

    Antonyms

    * anisotropy

    Anagrams

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    allotropy

    Noun

    (allotropies)
  • (chemistry) A property, exhibited by some elements of existing in multiple forms with different atomic structures.
  • Derived terms

    * allotrope